Nima Arkani-Hamed: Physics beyond Einstein

“Physics is an experimental science,” explained Arkani-Hamed. “We have a lot of mysteries we have a lot of puzzles, but, we need to make measurements and observations in order to give us clues about what the right answers are to some of the big questions facing us.”

Recently, Arkani-Hamed agreed to serve as the inaugural director of a controversial proposal to build the world’s largest particle accelerator in China. The hope is that this powerful machine will find particles that Europe’s Large Hadron Collider cannot, propelling science into a new era of physics research.

“Now, this is not an incremental step for China. It’s a humungous leap compared to anything that they’ve done before,” Arkani-Hamed said. “It’s really ambitious. It’s really big. And that, of course, is what makes it so exciting. It’s really big, as a scientific project.”

Nima Arkani-Hamed joined Mike Walter in our New York studio to talk more about his research, this exciting project and to answer questions about understanding the universe.

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Freddy Kruger

The scientist studying this use too much of their technical side of their brains. They have absolutely no artistic flair to come up with unorthodox solutions! They are hung up in the classical approach. The classical approach still has problems with accepting fully the principles of quantum mechanics kind of like Einstein did! The superconducting supercolliders need to be constructed. It is small and doesn’t need 8 stories high at miles of collider!

preali

And your credentials are? Graduated from the school of hard knocks…on the head. 🙂